Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• Photonote evaluation: aiding students with disabilities in a lecture environment

  Gregory Hughes, Peter Robinson (2007) — Proceedings of the 9th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '07)

  Hughes and Robinson at the Cambridge Computer Laboratory present Photonote, a lecture-capture system designed specifically for students with disabilities, and a controlled user study comparing it to human note-takers. Where existing lecture-capture s…

  • lecture capture
  • note-taking
  • educational accessibility
  • academic accommodation
  • sign language interpreter
  • American Sign Language
  • computer vision
  • image enhancement
  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • visual impairment
  • learning disabilities
  • mobility
  • higher education
  • accessibility evaluation

• Multiple View Perspectives: Improving Inclusiveness and Video Compression in Mainstream Classroom Recordings

  Raja S. Kushalnagar, Anna C. Cavender, Jehan-François Pâris (2010) — Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)

  This paper presents Multiple View Perspectives (MVP), a system that captures and presents multiple focused video views of a classroom for deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students. DHH students in mainstream classrooms face a fundamental visual attenti…

  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • lecture capture
  • video accessibility
  • classroom accessibility
  • sign language interpreting
  • captioning
  • visual attention
  • video compression
  • inclusive education